How do I NOT view PDF files in Safari?

When I click on a PDF link on a webpage in Safari it no longer opens by downloading or opening in Preview. Now it opens a new tab, all in gray and displays the message that I must quit Safari, open Adobe Reader, and accept a license agreement to view the PDF in Safari. Since I don't want to do that, ever, does anyone know how I can go back to the way it was before this started? It's been doing this for a month(?) now.

There is a little tool, where you can set wheter Safari should display the PDF (and then you can download it) or not display it and download directly:
Safari-display-or-download-pdf.app.

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